Word: moralisms
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...aside the moral question of gayness. Conservative blacks should denounce the Massachusetts law in question not because they've suddenly decided to embrace something they find wrong but because the law is wrong. It's ostensibly a Federalist argument that is in fact homophobic-and was racist-in intent. And it offends me to the core that lawmakers would deny equal rights to one minority group using a statute created to target others, a statute that could have barred, even invalidated, my existence and might have prevented me from marrying my (white) boyfriend from Massachusetts in Massachusetts. Remember that...
...Final clubs are targets for those who are envious of not belonging or for those seldom few who harbor objections to elitism on moral principles. From this envy and disdain, stereotypes have emanated widely. But, at least for Isis, some of the worst stereotypes of Harvard’s private social organizations seem to be proved true—the punch book is an extravaganza of vapidity, cattiness, self-praise, and insecurity...
Homosexuality is a mistaken concept. Evil has become good, and good evil. We Americans are witnessing the moral death of our nation...
...having sex with a 14-year-old boy and sentenced to 17 years in prison; by the Kansas Supreme Court, which unanimously struck down a state law setting harsher punishments for underage homosexual sex than for underage heterosexual sex; in Topeka. The court ordered equal sentencing, saying "moral disapproval" did not justify the treatment of Limon, who would have received a maximum of 15 months in jail if he had had sex with an underage female...
...will certainly include major Supreme Court decisions, Tribe wrote that “the course will include much more than strictly legal sources because much of what I think sheds light on these ultimate matters takes a literary form, including both poetry and prose narrative; social and political analysis; moral philosophy; historical and anthropological study; or biomedical writing for generally educated non-specialists...